This posting reflects an existing vacancy.
Join On Side Restoration as a Drywaller/Painter and help rebuild homes and businesses after disaster strikes. You’ll repair and finish drywall, apply textures, and bring spaces to life with fresh paint.
Compensation
- Salary Range: $30-$35/hour
- Overtime opportunities (where applicable)
- On-call premium and overtime paid for rotating coverage
Benefits
- Extended health coverage (medical, dental, vision, etc.)
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Group RRSP, with company matching DPSP
- Life and disability insurance
- Opportunities for advancement and internal mobility
What You’ll Do
- Measure, cut, install, and repair damaged drywall
- Estimate the quantity of materials required by measuring surfaces, reviewing scopes, sketches and work orders
- Ceiling texture: knockdown, popcorn, orange peel
- Tape, mud, sand, and texture surfaces
- Prepare and protect work sites
- Prepare surfaces and apply primers, paints, stains, or finishes
- Apply finishes that are sponged, ragged and layered
- Feathering/blending wall paint
- Stucco finishes/repairs
- Match colors and apply coatings using brushes, rollers, or spray guns
- Install wall coverings
- Basic finishing carpentry skills
What You Bring
- 5+ years of drywall repair experience (cutting, mudding, sanding, taping, painting)
- Experience with restoration repairs (vs new or renovation)
- Level 5 drywall finishing technique
- Brush/roller/spray gun paint experience to finish the area for uniformity and completion
- Construction experience and tool proficiency: you have your own tools for the job
- Previous experience reading and executing work orders
- Texturing skills (knockdown, popcorn, orange peel)
- Leadership to guide helpers and train less experienced workers
- Physically fit: able to do heavy lifting (moving materials) and long periods of kneeling/bending/crouching/reaching
- Ability to work independently or in a team
- Tech-savvy (comfortable using apps/software)
- Strong communication and people skills
- Detail-oriented, quality-driven, safety-focused
- Basic carpentry skills (baseboards, doors, windows, etc)
- Valid driver’s licence and clean criminal record (we do check)
- Tools for the job
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and spoken
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- A workplace that values respect, integrity, generosity, excellence and being customer driven
- Opportunities to grow your career and learn from the best in the industry
- A culture that celebrates teamwork, inclusion, and customer-driven service
Of Note:
Disasters can strike at any time so a rotating schedule of 24/7 after hours on-call work is a requirement. Meaning you’ll work regular weekday hours and participate in a rotating after-hours on-call schedule.
At On Side, everything starts with people. We live our values — respect, integrity, generosity, excellence, and customer focus — in everything we do.
Join a team that helps families, businesses, and communities rebuild when it matters most. You’ll contribute to a workplace where people come together to bring order to chaos.
Make a real impact, do work that matters, and grow your career with us.
*Your application is always reviewed by real people. We don’t use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for this role.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $30.00-$35.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- RRSP match
- Vision care
Application question(s):
- Can you perform effectively both when working independently and when collaborating as part of a team? If you have a preference or any concerns regarding either work style, please describe them.
- Restoration work requires documentation and tracking throughout your workday. Are you comfortable operating a phone to navigate through applications and record info as required?
- Nice to have: carpentry experience and the ability to assist with finish work on site. Please speak to your in-home carpentry skill set / experience.
- Attitude matters. How would you describe your ambition, respect for others, communication skills, and willingness to support colleagues and clients? Please explain with examples.
- Are you able to work a Rotating On-Call Schedule (Responding to emergency calls after business hours)? This is additional to scheduled daytime hours.
- This role involves working in homes affected by fire or flood damage and completing drywall repairs from start to finish, including installation, taping, mudding, texturing, and final paint. The ideal candidate can fully restore damaged areas of a home. Please explain why you would be a strong fit for this position.
- Do you have your own tools for the drywalling and painting jobs? Materials are supplied.
- Please describe your hands-on experience with drywall texturing techniques, including knockdown, orange peel, and popcorn. Be specific about the methods you’ve used, tools and equipment you’re familiar with, and the types of projects you’ve completed, as detailed responses will be strongly considered.
Experience:
- Drywall Repair: 5 years (preferred)
- Brush and Roller Painting: 5 years (preferred)
- Texture Spraying: 3 years (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Canadian Driver's License (required)
Work Location: In person
